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PROCLAMATIONS—OCT. 2, 1954

[69 STAT.

NATIONAL OLYMPIC D A Y, 1954 October 2, 1954 [No. 3069]

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION

National Day, 1954.

Olympic

WHEREAS the X VI t h Olympic Games of the modern era will be held at Melbourne, Australia, November 22 to December 8, 1956, with Winter Games to be held at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, January 26 to February 5, 1956, and the Pan American Games will be held at Mexico City in March 1955; and WHEREAS by a joint resolution approved April 22, 1954 (68 Stat. 58), the Congress has declared.that these games will afford an opportunity of bringing together young men and women representing more than seventy nations, of many races, creeds, and stations in life and possessing various habits and customs, all bound together by the universal appeal of friendly athletic competition; and WHEREAS the said joint resolution calls attention to the fact that the United States Olympic Association is presently engaged in assuring maximum support for the teams representing the United States in these athletic contests, and requests the President to issue a proclamation designating the sixteenth day of October 1954 as National Olympic D a y: NOW, THEREFORE, I, DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Saturday, October 16, 1954, as National Olympic Daj^, and I urge all citizens of our country to do all in their power to support the X VI t h Olympic Games, the Winter Games, and the P a n American Games so as to insure that the United States will be fully and adequately repreI N W I T N E S S WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed. D O N E at the City of Washington this 2nd day of October in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and fifty-four, and of [SEAL] the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-ninth. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER By the President: JOHN FOSTER DULLES,

Secretary

of State.

IMPOSING A QUOTA ON IMPORTS OF OATS October 4, 1954 [No. 3070]

BY THE P R E S I D E N T OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, pursuant to section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as added by section 31 of the act of August 24, 1935, 49 Stat. 773, reenacted by section 1 of the act of June 3, 1937, 50 Stat. 246, and as amended by section 3 of the act of July 3, 1948, 62 Stat. 1248, section 3 of the act of June 28, 1950, 64 Stat. 261, and section 8(b) of the act of June 16, 1951, 65 Stat. 72 (7 U.S.C. 624), the Secretary of Agriculture has advised me that he has reason to believe that oats, hulled or unhulled, and unhuUed ground oats are practically certain

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